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Bryson asserts on page 86 that "Each year, 40,000 Americans die from gunshot wounds, the great majority of them by accident." I'm no expert on statistics, but according to the basic Google search I just did, 62% of American gun deaths are suicides, 35% are homicides, and the remaining 3% are accidental. Last time I checked, 3% did not qualify as a "great majority." Why did this kind of error go to print unchecked?

Naomi Keep in mind the book was published in 1999, so the statistics were probably accurate for at that time.

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Holden It's all right. If you have never read anything by Bryson, I would recommend "A Walk in the Woods" and "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" ove…moreIt's all right. If you have never read anything by Bryson, I would recommend "A Walk in the Woods" and "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" over this. Since it's a collection of articles he wrote for a newspaper, it's somewhat unfocused and there seems to be a lot of rambling. (less)

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